History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c92.309

v7.c92.309

In the collection of the rites and worship called ‘Ṛgveda-brahmakarmasamuccaya’ published by the Nirṇayasāgara Press (6th ed. Bombay 1936) there are at the beginning several maṇḍalas, plain or drawn in various colours, such as the Sarvatobhadra, Caturliṅgatobhadra, Prāsādavāstumaṇḍala, Gṛhavāstumaṇḍala, Grahadevatāmaṇḍala, Hariharamaṇḍala, Ekaliṅgatobhadra. The Smṛtikaustubha mentions Dvādaśaliṅgatobhadra, Harihara-maṇḍala inside which there is Sarvatobhadra pp. 410–411 (of Nirṇ. ed. of 1909). They are all passed over here. Sarvatobhadra literally means ‘auspicious on all sides’. This concept of an auspicious figure or diagram was carried over in the realm of Poetics. Daṇḍin in his Kāvyādarśa cites a verse in the form called Sarvatobhadra, which is an illustration of what are called ‘citra-bandhas’.¹⁸⁵⁹ About a century before Daṇḍin, the Kirātārjunīya (15 25) gives an illustration of ‘sarvatobhadra’